Head of Translation Operations

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London

Short summary

The Head of Translation Operations is a strategic position within the Translation Team to ensure delivery of the strategic objectives and achieve appropriate compliance and governance for the Crick.

The role sits within the Translation team reporting to the Translation Director. Line management responsibility for the PA/Translation Programme Manager.

This is a full-time, permanent position. Part time would be considered with a minimum of 0.8 FTE.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver the translation strategy of the Crick Institute with the Translation Director.
• Write translation strategic documents, operational documents and internal and external communications for use by the Crick, the team and external audiences.
• Lead the creation and delivery of planned internal and external Translation communications at the Crick, working closely with the Crick Communications team.
• Write reports and briefings for use by the Director, Board and Executive.
• Identify potential operational issues and advise and develop solutions to address them, working with Crick operational teams, scientists and external parties.
• Continuous improvement of the structures and procedures to ensure effective operation of the translation team.
• Lead the appropriate data archiving to deliver accurate data analysis for key translation activities, outputs and KPIs.
• Oversight of the programme management of the proof of concept/ proof of mechanism translational projects under the Idea to Innovation (i2i) scheme, and Translation Fund.
• Write the Funder’s reports and compile the ResearchFish outputs for Crick Translational grant activities. Work with funders of translational projects (MRC, LifeArc, Chris Banton Foundation) as necessary.
• Accountable for the translation risk register.
• Responsible for the effective management of Translation core budget working closely with the Crick finance team. Oversight of grant pre- and post-award processes, liaising with finance and grants teams as required.

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL (University College London), Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.

• If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website.
• The closing date for applications is 17.02.2023
• All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.

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